Raking in the most licenses to protect the goods are IBM, Samsung and Google. Last year, IBM accounted for 2 percent of all patents awarded with 7,534 and this year it's on track to gain even more coverage, pulling in 152 patents on average every week. That's 21 patents a day. As of June 2, it has more than 3,100.

Samsung already has about 2,500 patents— more than half of what it scored last year. Google has managed to garner about 64 patents a week, just barely putting it ahead of Microsoft and Qualcomm.